Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris)

Family
Furnariidae (Ovenbirds)

Size
16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lafresnaye, 1836)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude grassland, shrubland. Also, pastureland, arable land. From 2,500 - 4,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris) [XC223377]
by Niels Krabbe from Pomacocha Lake, Jun\u00edn, Peru (call)

Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris) [XC826649]
by id from El Infiernillo, Taf\u00ed del Valle, Tucum\u00e1n, Argentina (alarm call, flight call)

Subspecies
Plumage characteristics suggest most closely related to Common Miner (Geositta cunicularia). Separation of the two in conventional linear sequences is a result of overemphasis on bill morphology in traditional taxonomy. Some specimens from north-western Peru (Cajamarca) intermediate between nominate subspecies and kalimayae.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

kalimayae Krabbe, 1992 - Andes of central Ecuador (Cotopaxi).
tenuirostris (Lafresnaye, 1836) - Andes of Peru (Cajamarca south to Arequipa in west, and south from Hu�nuco on eastern slope), Bolivia and north-western Argentina (south to Tucum�n; one record La Rioja).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris) - 10 files

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